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Chapter 404 Was I the one who was wrong?
Room 704, 7th floor of the apartment building.

As the sun rose above the horizon, Akinagisa finally returned home.

She opened the door quietly, peeked inside, and then tiptoed in, looking just like a guilty thief.

Because the sun had just risen, the house was not well lit and was dim, so Akina couldn't see the living room.

So, Akina carefully turned on the light, and was immediately startled.

"F-Furujo-kun...?!"

Yes.

Akatsuki Nagisa saw Akatsuki Kojo.

In the living room, where the lights were on, Kojou Akatsuki was sitting on the sofa facing the entrance.

His face was stiff, his eyes were bloodshot, and there were very obvious dark circles under his eyes. He exuded an aura of resentment and anger, which made Akina take a step back.

“...Nagisa”.

Looking at his younger sister who hadn't returned all night, Xiao Gucheng seemed to be vomiting blood, or about to shed tears, and slowly spoke.

"Why don't you answer the phone?"

Why aren't you replying to my text messages?

"Why...didn't you come home all night?"

Xiao Gucheng's voice was hoarse, as if he had been completely exhausted and in despair after a night of utter madness.

"where did you go?"

A simple question frightened Akina.

"Um... Kojo-kun?" Akatsuki Nagisa asked timidly, "Are you angry?"

"Angry?" Xiao Gucheng forced an extremely ugly smile, chuckled a few times, and said, "No, I'm not angry. How could I possibly be angry?"

"Even if my sister stays out overnight, especially with a boy her own age, I won't be angry."

"So...you should tell me by now, shouldn't you? What were you doing out there? What did you do with that bastard? What could have kept you away all night?"

Looking at Akatsuki Kojou's forced smile, his eyes lifeless and bloodshot, Akatsuki Nagisa was utterly terrified.

"Kou-Koujo-kun, please don't misunderstand, we didn't do anything wrong outside..."

Towards the end, Akinagisa's own tone became less certain.

I don't think I did anything wrong, right?

They only drove away two unruly demons, so it shouldn't be considered a bad thing, right?

But is that all I did? Nothing else?

Perhaps she did it, but Ai Jun just didn't tell her?
Thinking of this, Akinagisa's tone softened.

However, she had no idea that her guilty conscience not only made her speech extremely unconvincing, but also caused the string that had been tightly strung in the mind of that brother-complex person to snap completely.

"I'm going to kill that bastard—!"

Akatsuki's eyes were bloodshot, as if he had transformed into a true vampire progenitor. He rolled up his sleeves and prepared to rush out the door.

"Kojo-kun?!"

Akina immediately cried out in surprise and quickly grabbed him.

"Don't be impulsive, Kojo-kun!"

"Let me go! I'm going to kill that bastard who dared to lay a hand on my sister!"

"That's not true! You've misunderstood! Ai Jun didn't attack me!"

"You're still defending him?! You must have been fooled by him!"

"Listen to me first!"

"You brat! Nagisa won't be fifteen for a while! She hasn't even graduated from middle school yet! She's still a child!"

"I...I'm not a child!"

"What?! So you really have already stepped onto the ladder of adulthood?!"

"Ah, no, that's not what I meant. I didn't mean that kind of thing isn't for children..."

"I killed him—!"

"No—!"

The Xiao family home became extremely lively in the early morning, disturbing all the neighbors.

Aize, who was washing up, heard the commotion and his lips twitched slightly.

"Now, I'm in a situation where I can't clear my name even if I jump into the Yellow River, right?"

Fortunately, Akina didn't seem to care that he hadn't taken her home last night, but instead brought her to his own house; otherwise, Aize would have had a hard time explaining it.

"Well, this is pretty funny too."

Aize quickly forgot about it, continued washing up, and prepared for school.

He has already made a promise with Akina Gisa that starting today, they will go to and from school together, and wherever they go except home, they will stay together.

"This is the correct way to deal with the Fourth Ancestor and his watchers..."

Sure enough, I've been given the female lead's script.

Having confirmed this again, Aize left the washroom and headed towards the door. ...

Instead of waiting for Akinagisa outside room 704, Aize went downstairs first and waited for Akinagisa to come down from the apartment building.

Aize waited for almost an hour.

Then... he waited for Akatsuki.

"Look at the fist!"

As Xiaogucheng burst out of the apartment building, he was like a Fighter King with his rage meter full, throwing a punch at Aize who was standing outside the door.

This punch was fast and urgent. Although it was thrown by an ordinary human high school student, it gave others the aura that even a strong orc might not be able to match.

Unfortunately, Aize easily dodged this fast and urgent punch.

"Huh? Isn't this Kojou-kun?"

As if he hadn't seen Kojo's anger or the punch he'd just thrown, Aize greeted Kojo as he had when they first met yesterday.

Good morning, are you getting ready for school too?

His calm and composed demeanor easily filled Xiaogucheng's anger gauge again.

"You actually have the nerve to greet me?" Xiao Gucheng shouted, trembling with rage. "You kidnapped someone else's sister for a whole night, and you still dare to greet me?"

"So that means you're mentally prepared to have a good fight with me, right?"

The only thing that could make the lazy Akatsuki so angry and aggressive is probably his sister.

And Aize undoubtedly touched on this point.

So he chuckled, both amused and exasperated.

"Don't say that. I'm also very happy to get along well with my classmate's younger sister."

These words, once spoken, immediately infuriated Xiaogucheng.

"How dare you say that...! Take this!"

Xiao Gucheng charged forward angrily, launching a continuous attack on Aize.

To be honest, he's quite skilled. No wonder he used to be on a basketball team; his agility is something most high school students can't match.

Xiao Gucheng was once the ace of the basketball team. None of his teammates could keep up with his skills, which is why he was isolated and left the basketball team.

Even in this state, when he angrily rushes up to fight, he still has a certain intimidating power.

Unfortunately, while it has some deterrent effect, it's not much.

At least, that's true for Azer.

With a few casual steps and a few quick movements, Aize easily dodged Xiao Gucheng's powerful, unrestrained punches.

Immediately, as Akatsuki threw his eleventh punch at his face, Aize not only dodged the punch by turning to the side, letting it glide past his face, but also reached out with lightning speed and sharply tapped Akatsuki's elbow.

This is what caused Akatsuki's fist to veer off course, and his body to lose its balance.

"clang!"

With a crisp sound, Akatsuki's fist struck the notice board beside him.

"it hurts!"

Xiao Gucheng immediately clenched his fists, cried out in pain, and squatted down.

"Are you alright?" Aize squatted down next to Xiaogucheng and asked with concern, "How could you be so careless? Remember to aim better next time, okay?"

As he spoke, Aize pointed at Xiaogucheng's red and swollen fist with his finger, causing Xiaogucheng to gasp in pain.

"You, you bastard...!" Xiao Gucheng quickly distanced himself from Aize, shouting with tears in his eyes, "Don't think that just because you're good at fighting, I'll let this go!"

"Such a big grudge?" Aize raised an eyebrow and chuckled. "It's just that your own sister stayed overnight at the neighbor's house. Is it really necessary to get so worked up?"

"How dare you say such a thing?" Akatsuki laughed in anger, his face flushed with rage and tears streaming down his face. "Nagisa is just a middle school student! You beast, how could you do this?!"

Now, Aize understood.

Kojou Akatsuki had no idea about their relationship. Although Nagisa Akatsuki slept at his house for a night, nothing actually happened between them.

He probably thought that his sister had already been taken advantage of by Aize, which is why he was so agitated.

Indeed, a girl actually stayed overnight at a boy's house, didn't return home all night, couldn't be reached by phone, and didn't reply to text messages. A man and a woman alone in a room, if you say nothing happened, probably not many people would believe it.

Akatsuki Nagisa may have explained, but the agitated Akatsuki Kojo didn't listen.

Since that's the case, Aize isn't going to explain.

"You know Nagisa is just a middle school student, right?" Aize said with a half-smile, "But what middle school student does almost all the housework at home? Not only do they have no parents, but they also have to rush home every day to cook for their older brother and take care of him?"

Xiao Gucheng was momentarily speechless, his breath caught in his throat.

"In the end, you should blame yourself for ending up with Nagisa last night, right?" Aize continued to kick him while he was down, saying, "You're the kind of person who goes straight home after school, yet your sister, who's involved in club activities, has to come home and cook for you?"

“If you had cooked dinner last night, Nagisa wouldn’t have missed the time and gone out to eat with me.”

"I'm new here and don't know anyone. I don't even know where to find a decent place to eat. You, my classmate sitting next to me, are a member of the Homecoming Club, and you didn't even show me around. But my kind-hearted sister did this, and you're blaming her instead."

"What kind of logic is that?"

Aize's forceful and sophistical arguments made Xiao Gucheng begin to question the meaning of life on the spot.

Could it be... that I'm the one who's wrong?

(End of this chapter)